The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is planning to launch a wide-ranging study of tech companies' data practices, in the latest sign of the increased scrutiny that Silicon Valley giants such as Facebook are facing in…

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Tasked with protecting Americans against harmful financial practices, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has taken a less aggressive approach under the Trump administration, according to a pair of new reports.

Overall enforcement activity has fallen 80 percent…

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Comedian John Oliver used Sunday’s Last Week Tonight show to attack the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for inaction on stopping the spread of so-called robocalls. He also announced the show had set up a protest campaign to…

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House and Senate Democratic leaders unveiled new legislation Wednesday proposing to restore federal net neutrality rules on Internet providers such as AT&T and Verizon, in their latest attempt to countermand the Republican-led Federal Communications Commission.

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Corporations have created a new kind of marketplace out of our private human experiences. That is the conclusion of an explosive new book that argues big tech platforms like Facebook and Google are elephant poachers,…

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If Greg Wyler’s plans at OneWeb are successful, what he envisions is nothing short of revolutionary: becoming one of the world’s largest providers of Internet service by building the architecture in space, allowing the billions…

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Congressional Democrats embarked Tuesday on a wide-ranging campaign to probe Facebook, Google and their peers in the tech industry, a new burst of oversight that could bring heightened attention to some of Silicon Valley’s controversial…

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A sneaky piece of advertising software may be responsible for driving up millions of Android users’ mobile data usage and wasting their device’s battery life, according to researchers at the technology company Oracle.

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The bug, and Apple’s slow response to patching it, have renewed concerns about the company’s commitment to security, even though it regularly advertises its bug reward program and boasts about the safety of its products.

It seems like everything is going digital, so it’s no surprise that businesses of all sizes (and even some government agencies) are pushing us to choose “environmentally friendly” paperless billing. But many people are not…

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WASHINGTON, DC — A bipartisan bill reintroduced today in the Senate will address the growing problem of “spoofed” robocalls that use fraudulent caller identification information to disguise the caller’s true identity.

Led…

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The message is clear: Consumers overwhelmingly prefer to receive bills and statements on paper rather than electronically, according to a new survey of more than 2,600 people by the non-profit Consumer Action.

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AT&T said it will stop selling its customers' location data to third-party service providers after a report this week said the information was winding up in the wrong hands. AT&T’s announcement goes much further, pledging…

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Recent revelations about companies that traffic in personal location data — and how easy that information can be acquired for a few hundred dollars — have led to renewed calls for the regulation of the…